Now that actor-producer-director Ben Dicke is on the mend from a fall he took Sept. 7, on what was to be opening night of the musical “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” we can ask the obvious: Isn’t that taking the old saw “break a leg” a bit literally?

Four broken ribs and one punctured lung later, the durable Dicke is ready for the curtain to rise on this love child of a project.

Most of the creative players are in Denver now for the sold-out launch of the first national tour of “The Book of Mormon,” which begins previews Aug. 14 and runs through Sept. 2.

While the Ellie Caulkins Opera House reverberates with rehearsals of the irreverent yet celebratory musical, created by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, the Tony winner’s producers and Denver Center Attractions announced a ticket lottery where each night hopefuls can enter a drawing for one or two $25 tickets.

“The Book of Mormon” is set to return to Denver October 2013, said the co-creators of the Tony Award-amassing musical about two young Mormons sent on a mission to Africa. Trey Parker and Matt Stone — both Colorado natives — were standing in the lobby of the Ellie Calukins Opera House as music wafted from a rehearsal of the show.Next week, Denver launches the musical’s first national tour.

In January, tickets sold out in record time for the show’s brief engagement at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House (Aug. 14-Sept. 2).

Given its blue-collar edge and occasional Tony Soprano vocabulary, you’ll get my meaning if I say orchestra seats for the tour of the Tony Award-garnering musical “Jersey Boys” — about the coming together and unraveling of the hit-making group the Four Seasons — just fell off the back of the truck.

Robert Garner, left, with Chuck Morris, president of AEG Rocky Mountain, at an event in June, 2012.

Word of theater producer Robert Garner’s death Thursday got eclipsed by the immeasurably sad news of the shootings at a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora. Garner, 80, died at his home after a brief illness.

But our silence has come to an end. Here’s a peek at Joanne Davidson’s obit for the man who helped make Denver a stop — and better, a starting point — for national tours of Broadway shows:

“(Garner’s) showbiz career was launched in 1961 when he served as local producer for a one-week run of the musical “Fiorello!” …As he told former Denver Post columnist Bill Husted in 2011, “I thought: ‘This isn’t a bad gig,’ and I never looked back.”

When the 7th installment of the annual ceremony drew to a close, Curious Theatre Company’s spring production of John Logan’s Tony-winning drama, which imagines a verbally volatile and philosophically engaged back-and-forth between the painter Mark Rothko and his fresh-from-the-sticks assistant — had won seven Henrys, including outstanding production of a play, outstanding direction of a play for Christy Montour-Larson, as well as recognition for scenic design, lighting design and sound design.

Bud Coleman, chair of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Department of Theatre and Dance, will become the first faculty member to occupy the Roe Green Chair in Theatre when the recent $2 million dollar gift from Green, a C.U. alum, kicks in, starting in 2015.

Green graduated from C.U. in 1970 then went on to study theater in graduate school at Kent State University in Ohio.

Now a resident of Cleveland, she has contributed generously to the arts in that city and had more than a hand in the opening of the $13 million Roe Green Center for the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State.

With little more than a week before the 7th Annual Henry Awards ceremony, the Thunder River Theatre Company has been named this year’s recipient of the Colorado Theatre Guild’s Outstanding Regional Theater honor.